Gun people love to talk about, read about, and generally think about guns. We here at Calibre know this because we’re guilty of it too. We look at them, play with them, take them apart, and dissect their quality, use, and performance ad nauseum. And we do this because they’re fun. They’re interesting. They’re complicated. But they’re also only half of the equation. Because as much as we’re fascinated by guns, at the end of the day they are little more than a metal tube that allows regular people to throw a pointy piece of metal at supersonic speeds. And what the pointy piece of metal does is entirely dependent on how it was made.

Three targets with a realistic high-chest region (such as an IPSC or IDPA) target set one yard apart, 10 yards from the shooter. Shooter faces away from the target with hands in a surrender position. On the beep of an electronic timer, the shooter pivots 180 degrees and engages each of the three targets with two rounds, performs an in-battery reload, and shoots each target again with two rounds for a total of 12. The par time is 10 seconds with all A-zone hits. (The drill can also be shot with the second string being one round to the head of each target with the same par time.)